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The Longman Register of New Words
As a nonexpert, although interested, subscriber to VERBATIM, it is “a bit mysterious” to me that the singular noun absence takes the plural verb are . I refer to the first sentence of your article about the Longman Dictionary [XV,1].
Also, if you enter jump , you get the synonyms for that; but if you entered jumped , you get the (same) synonyms but inflected--including the variants leapt , leaped for leap . All in all, for a primitive system, it is not too bad; but you would have to be in love with your computer to use it in preference to the far more complete books of synonyms available (especially The Synonym Finder , Rodale in the U.S. and Canada, Longman elsewhere, which offers more than 800,000 synonyms, more than three times the number listed in any other synonym book).
If we can sort out all the details here—no mean task—it emerges that W9 's vocabulary entries include both what I earlier called main entries (like watershed ) and what I called subentries (like waterless in CED ). But it appears that Longman's headwords are only those that are, or introduce, main entries.
A few years ago, an edition of Longman's English dictionary had included in its definition of Bangkok , a city with a lot of prostitutes.